Everybody seems focused on stablecoins, with the House bill on the subject passing through committee and the SEC releasing guidance on the types of stablecoin transactions that do not need to be registered with the agency. With people looking to park their money in cash during the current economic conditions, why not park it inContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 31-April 7, 2025”
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Off the Blockchain+, March 24-31, 2025
It was a relatively quiet week in terms of blockchain legal developments. Most the updates are clarifications on prior major stories, like Ripple’s announcement that it will be dropping its cross appeal as well, and some discussions regarding the current regulatory approaches to stablecoins. Here’s everything that happened last week in Web3 legal: OTHER STORIESContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 24-31, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, March 17-24, 2025
With March Madness in full swing, the Southeastern Conference wasn’t the only SEC making noise last week, with the federal agency version of the SEC seemingly dropping its appeal in Ripple and releasing staff guidance on proof of work mining. On the legislative front, stablecoin bills are moving full speed ahead, and M&A activity continuesContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 17-24, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, March 10-17, 2025
Congress continues to move fast in digital asset legislation, but it was an otherwise relatively quiet week in legal developments. The IRS crypto broker rules are all but dead, and both chambers of Congress had forward momentum on stablecoin legislation. For once, it seems like all the news regarding digital asset lawsuits are involving privateContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 10-17, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, March 3-10, 2025
The Whitehouse hosted its first “crypto summit” and the SEC stayed busy in announcing various initiatives and roundtables and cleaning house of non-fraud pending investigations and cases. Congress was also busy, with the Senate taking a crucial first step in repealing burdensome tax reporting rules for digital asset businesses, and various members of Congress creatingContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, March 3-10, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 24-March 3, 2025
Early in the week, it was blood in the streets with crypto reaching lows unheard of since (checks notes) November. Then President Trump announced a surprise U.S. crypto reserve over the weekend of not just BTC/ETH, but also SOL/XRP/ADA, which sent prices of those assets pumping again (only to crash again Monday). The other legalContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 24-March 3, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 17-24, 2025
Even before Paul Atkins is confirmed as the next Chair of the SEC, the agency had a busy week with the crypto task force opening up for submissions on how to regulate crypto and various investigations and lawsuits likely going by the wayside. This all happened the same week there was the biggest hack inContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 17-24, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 10-17, 2025
It was a fairly tame week in terms of legal developments until the nation-state of Argentina decided to drop a memecoin on Friday and then take out all the liquidity (i.e., “rug”) a few hours later. But other than that, Mr. Milei , how was the play? We also got the name of the likelyContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 10-17, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, February 3-10, 2025
With Congress in full swing and administrative agencies’ new leadership announcing their agendas, it was a BUSY week in Web3 legal developments. It seems likely there will be stablecoin legislation going through Congress in the next few months with a total market structure bill following shortly thereafter. Also, just to stay up to date onContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, February 3-10, 2025”
Off the Blockchain+, January 27-February 3, 2025
It was a relatively quiet week, especially in comparison to the week before where SAB 121 was repealed, the SEC formed a crypto rulemaking task force, and President Trump released an Executive Order on crypto. But despite having no developments worth “Major Story” attention (except maybe my ETH bags tanking due to tariff talk), thereContinue reading “Off the Blockchain+, January 27-February 3, 2025”
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